Mexico uses social pressure to get archaeological relics back

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Mexico Tries a New Tactic to Get Its Antiquities Back: Social Pressure

A campaign using social media and auction-house shaming has recovered thousands of relics and rattled international markets for artifacts

By Robert P. Walzer for The Wall Street Journal July 30, 2022

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s global hunt for missing ancient artifacts recently led to a Stockholm storage room, where a pair of 2,000-year-old ceramic figurines used decades ago to advertise the Mexican liqueur Kahlúa were gathering dust.

The startled Swedish corporate archivist who found the statuettes this spring contacted a Mexican Embassy official, who called anthropologists in Mexico City who soon certified them as shaft-tomb artifacts, leading to their return to Mexico in a June ceremony.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal

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